The Philadelphia-based Aramark Correctional Services, which provides food for Michigan prisons, has not exactly enjoyed a great reputation.
Here's the latest: The Detroit News reports that a kitchen worker for the company ordered cake that had been nibbled or pawed by rodents be served to inmates at St. Louis Correctional Facility in mid-Michigan last July.
Gary Heinlein of the News writes:
Corrections Department spokesman Chris Gautz said the incident resulted in the dismissal of a worker for Philadelphia-based Aramark Correctional Services, the state’s prison food contractor. He said the St. Louis warden also immediately ordered the kitchen and eating area to be scrubbed down and called in exterminators, although it’s not clear anyone actually saw any rodents.
“It should never have happened,” Gautz said. “(But) I don’t know what (the Corrections Department) could have done differently” in response.
The incident was among many that resulted in the company paying a $200,000 penalty, the News reports.
